Auckley in the Domesday Book (1086)

Auckley appears in the Domesday Book of 1086, entered under the hundred of Strafforth in Yorkshire.

Other Settlements in Strafforth

• Adwick [le Street]
• Adwick [upon Dearne]
• Armthorpe
• Aston
• Attercliffe
• Auckley
• Aughton [Hall]
• Austerfield
• Balby
• Barnbrough
• Barnby [Dun]
• Bentley
• Bilham [House]
• Billingley

The Meaning of the Name

The name Auckley is of Anglo-Saxon origin. Its final element derives from the Old English word lēah, a woodland clearing or glade. The first element is most likely a personal name or an early descriptive term, now difficult to recover with certainty. Taken together the name probably meant something close to ‘a clearing’.

The Domesday commissioners of 1086 recorded the place as another Auckley - the spelling has shifted over the nine centuries since, as the name passed from Norman scribes through Middle English into its modern form.

Listed Buildings Near Auckley

Historic England records 4 listed buildings within about a mile of Auckley. Listing protects structures of special architectural or historic interest, graded I (exceptional), II* (particularly important) and II.

Grade II

• 9, 11, Ellers Lane - 0.46 km
• Mounting Block adjacent to the north-east corner of the Eagle and Child Public House - 0.82 km
• Church of St Saviour - 0.84 km
• The Old Vicarage - 0.87 km

Auckley Today

Today Auckley lies within the administrative area of Doncaster, and the settlement recorded a population of 4,961 at the 2021 census. Nine and a half centuries separate that figure from the small rural community the Domesday survey recorded here in 1086.

Read more about modern Auckley on Wikipedia .

Nearby Domesday Settlements

Other places recorded in the 1086 survey within a few miles:

• Auckley - 0.0 km N
• Branton - 3.2 km W
• Cantley - 3.2 km W
• Littleworth - 4.2 km SW
• Armthorpe - 4.2 km NW
• Edenthorpe - 5.8 km NW